I can't believe the amount of runs of DR these past couple days I've done where we've actually had the presence of tanks who, for reasons absolutely beyond me, refuse to put on their tank stance.

You cannot have "tank anxiety" in level 80 end game content. You're beyond that point now. Stop wasting people's time, for god's sake. Having the aggro ping pong among the DPS and profane healers is making us slog through already unessecarily long content because so many refuse to use essences. If you want to be carried, do the bare minimum and help us help you. Throw on your tank stance and stop letting the DPS die.

Raised DPS/ profane healers do LESS damage when they raise. There is little we can do to prevent a tankbuster to the face, and you force the run to take even longer for absolutely no reason. There is extremely little you need to do in this raid as a tank. If you get marked red, face it away from people. Press your mitigation buttons. Do whatever it is you think your DPS is supposed to be. Point the boss north. That IS ALL. It doesn't matter if you die! A tank's dps is not worth nearly as much as the DPS that you keep sacrificing. There are exceptions to this, but you're not close to being one of them if the tank button scares you. It is SO MUCH better to have the party mildly annoyed at your poor boss positioning than the entire alliance bitching at you because you can't do your one simple job. I've healed plenty of fresh faced tanks that wander bright eyed and fearful into new content. But they charge in and do the role they signed up as. They die a ton and no one cares. They come back the next time knowing what to do. Just do the thing.